[lit-ideas] On Heidegger, Arendt, and Americans' lack of passion
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:08:41 -0800
'One of the gossipy curiosities of 20th-century philosophy is that Hannah
Arendt, the German-born Jewish philosopher remembered for her fierce and
unforgiving attacks on totalitarianism, had a youthful fling in the 1920s
with Martin Heidegger.
'Heidegger, the influential philosopher, later became a prominent Nazi and
at one time aspired to be Hitler s chief ideologue.
'Most scholars believed that by the 1930s Arendt and Heidegger had gone
their separate ways and their early liaison could be dismissed as a short-
lived dalliance.
'But now a book based on their newly unsealed correspondence, "Hannah
Arendt/Martin Heidegger" (Yale University Press) by Elzbieta Ettinger, has
revealed that their affair was not evanescent but burned with white hot
intensity for four years. Most disturbing to some scholars after the war,
Arendt and Heidegger resumed their friendship.'
[more]
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/arendt.html
Robert Paul
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